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Studying patterns in walking control

Researchers investigate patterns in the timing of steps and how people with Parkinson’s control their walking.

Learning by observing or collecting information · Study reference: NCT05908279

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Start (reported actual date): 2023-05-01
Main measurements finished (planned): 2027-10-31
Study finished (planned): 2027-10-31

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Changes we have recorded

2026-10-11 — recruiting

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Papers connected to this study

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Who can join?

Ages 18 years to 99 years · Also accepts healthy volunteers

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Sex eligibility reported by registry: all

Inclusion Criteria: * Patients and volunteers able to walk for 20mins and without other neurological disorders. Exclusion Criteria: * Patients or volunteers unable to walk for 20mins and with other neurological disorders.

Full study name & original research details

Official study title

Flexible Control of Gait in Parkinson Disease: Effect of Task Instruction on the Exploitation of Redundancy in Speed Control.

Short title used by the registry

Gait Control in Parkinson Disease

Original description

Previous work has shown that a statistical property of gait characterised by long-range autocorrelation functions is altered in Parkinson disease (PD). On the other hand it has been suggested that the same property is linked to the ability in healthy humans to co-regulate the amplitude and cadence of strides towards maintaining a constant speed. Here the investigators want to better understand why it is altered in PD by measuring the transitions between gait instructed by a metronome, and gait without metronome. The experimental conditions will allow the comparisons between these transitions across PD and healthy groups of volunteers, and assess differences based on statistical and computational modelling. The link with potential freezing episodes will also be studied to assess whether the statistical determinants of gait control in this population can be used as a proxy or predictor of the occurence of freezing episodes.

Conditions reported: Parkinson Disease

Registry records for this study

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ClinicalTrials.gov · NCT05908279 ↗ — RECRUITING; checked 2026-10-13
ClinicalTrials.gov · NCT05908279 ↗ — Recruiting; WHO ICTRP processed 2023-06-20; checked 2026-10-13

Study type: Observational
Interventions: Walking test; Disease assessement
Phases: Not reported
Sponsor: Université Catholique de Louvain
Start date reported by registry: 2023-05-01 (actual)

Registry updated: 2023-06-18 · Status last verified by the registry submitter: 2023-06

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André Mouraux, PhD · +32 2 764 54 47 · andre.mouraux@uclouvain.be

Frederic Crevecoeur · frederic.crevecoeur@uclouvain.be

Study locations

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Université catholique de Louvain

Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

Recruiting

Andre Mouraux, PhD · +32 2 764 54 47 · andre.mouraux@uclouvain.be

Facility not reported

Belgium

Status not reported

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